Word: reliefs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many people crowded the banks of the Charles River in Boston, where the high was 102°, that it seemed like any summer Sunday afternoon; actually it was midnight last Wednesday, and the beantowners were just looking for some late-night relief. But not in the city's "Combat Zone," where one prostitute lamented her lack of trade: "They don't want to do it now-it's too hot. They all want air conditioning. You think I got air conditioning?" In Detroit, workers at the big automobile companies asked the same question. As temperatures...
...starters, Mayor Abraham Beame proposed a "rescue fund" of $1 million from the city and $2.5 million from its companies; by week's end, businessmen had pledged about $2 million, and His Honor donated $100 of his own money. The Carter Administration put up $11.3 million in relief, and Governor Hugh Carey promised $500.000 in state aid. This will hardly dent the storekeepers' losses, which city officials estimated at $155 million (a sharp drop from their ballpark guess of $1 billion a week earlier). Merchants and property owners are also eligible for low-interest (6⅝%) Small Business...
Marriage of Convenience. During World War I, Cole worked for an American relief group in Paris, where he met Linda Lee Thomas, a sophisticated, beautiful-and equally rich-American divorcee. They married in 1919; thereafter, the Porters embodied the '20s dictum, "Living well is the best revenge." They discovered the Riviera before anyone else, kept houses in Paris, California, Massachusetts-and an apartment on the 41st floor of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in Manhattan...
...freezing the state's agricultural acreage will halt the untamed growth of suburbs. Smog is down 50% in the L.A. basin because of stiff fines and surveillance. Two-thirds of a projected $2.5 billion state budget surplus has been earmarked for public school financing and middle-class tax relief...
...instinct to pull the pitch on the shortest line to the nearest fence. The lust for the long ball and the glory of homers has contributed as much to the decline in high-average hitters in the post-World War II era as the oft-cited rise of relief pitching. Trying to cream a fastball low and away is a sure way to strike...